Great post! Minor nit: eggdrop is an old bot written in TCL. People use "bouncers" like BNC and ZNC to proxy IRC through a shell to keep themselves connected,

Great post! Minor nit: eggdrop is an old bot written in TCL. People use "bouncers" like BNC and ZNC to proxy IRC through a shell to keep themselves connected, and other features. I don't know why we keep reinventing IRC.